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GREENBELT -- It happened again. A NASA space shuttle lifted off from Cape Canaveral yesterday morning, and tears pooled in Bruce Schneck's eyes. "Every time we fly, I well up," confessed Schneck, 52, a Baltimore native and Honeywell Technology Solutions employee who manages shuttle communications for the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt. He wasn't the only one caught up in the emotion of yesterday's "return to flight." As workers directly involved in the launch focused on their monitors, others crowded a hallway to peer through the control room windows of the Flight Dynamics Facility, where engineers track the shuttle and make sure...